Developing Android applications: pre-conference workshop
Hans Dulimarta, Jonathan Engelsma · Journal of computing sciences in colleges · 2010
Since the Android mobile platform was first open sourced by Google in November 2007, it has attracted more than 180,000 developers and deployment of 50,000 mobile applications in the Android Market. Today, more than 60 smart phones from major manufacturers run the Android platform. In addition, within the last two years, the number of web searches through mobile phones (both Android and non-Android platforms) has increased five times. All these numbers show how the Android project has gained its momentum to move forward and how mobile applications will become more widely-used by smart phone users. A larger percentage of these users are young adults that include college students.